The Toughest Hall of Famers to Acquire?

[tedzan]

Lefty O'Doul....11 year career....career BA = .349

So, why isn't he in the HOF ?


George C. Miller cards as nice as this one are very tough to find.




TED Z

T206 Reference
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[KMayUSA6060]

This might work for Burkett.

Burkett N54, Horizontal

http://imgur.com/1fihx66

[oldjudge]

Paul-Deacon White also has Tomlinson cabinets, which are his true rookie cards. He also has several different other cabinets.
The Cameo Pepsin pin is Selee’s rookie collectible. They are not baseball cards by traditional definitions, but neither are M101-1 or M101-2s, scraps, photographs, postcards, etc. However, they are all interesting and all very collectible.

[Kenny Cole]

Selee only has one card, Al Spalding too, so far as I know. Pete Hill has three, Andy Foster is on a Mallorquinas sheet and has a card as well I believe. Off the top of my head, those would be the most difficult in an individual card. They are, btw, the cards I am also missing for my HOF individual set, I have the rest,

[aljurgela]

Originally Posted by Kenny Cole

Selee only has one card, Al Spalding too, so far as I know. Pete Hill has three, Andy Foster is on a Mallorquinas sheet and has a card as well I believe. Off the top of my head, those would be the most difficult in an individual card. They are, btw, the cards I am also missing for my HOF individual set, I have the rest,

Kenny is right here, but also Pop Lloyd and Jose Mendez each have 2 graded copies of the 1910 Punch Cigarros series

[ronniehatesjazz]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Lefty O'Doul....11 year career....career BA = .349

So, why isn't he in the HOF ?


George C. Miller cards as nice as this one are very tough to find.




TED Z

T206 Reference
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It’s amazing to me that he’s not in the hall Ted. Better case than even Gil Hodges I think.

As for hard HOFs, I’ll throw out Eddie Roush. I’m a Reds fan and have been trying to snag as many Reds prewar cards that I can. Roush just has the 15 CJ and a hand full of strip/team set cards. Falls inline with his contemporaries but is someone I’m very familiar with.

[KMayUSA6060]

By the way, thank you all for the really great responses. I'm working on putting together one of every Hall of Famer. Originally, I worded it as "one card of every player from their playing days" but as someone brought up, some of these guys are more easily found as managers. So I should probably change the verbiage to state "one card from their involvement with MLB."

I recently consolidated some of the smaller Pre-War HoFers into some of the bigger HoFers (Cobb, Gehrig, etc.). As I move closer to completing the "big boys", it's interesting to see other people's struggles with finding many of these Pre-War HoFers.

Interested to hear more. Thanks!

[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by ronniehatesjazz

As for hard HOFs, I’ll throw out Eddie Roush. I’m a Reds fan and have been trying to snag as many Reds prewar cards that I can. Roush just has the 15 CJ and a hand full of strip/team set cards. Falls inline with his contemporaries but is someone I’m very familiar with.

Tyler, it appears to me that Roush has many pre-War cards, including all of the M101-4/5 issues and E121 and related issues: http://www.vintagecardprices.com/bas...multi_player=1

[aljurgela]

These are some that are not often seen...

Pete Hill rookie (1909 Cabanas) 1 known copy
Jose Mendez rookie (1910 Punch) 2 known copies
Willard Brown -1951-52 Denia - Puerto Rican issue - 2 graded copies
Pop Lloyd - 1923-24 Tomas Gutierrez - 6 graded copies

[Leon]

Those are off the charts. Thanks for sharing.

Originally Posted by aljurgela

These are some that are not often seen...

Pete Hill rookie (1909 Cabanas) 1 known copy
Jose Mendez rookie (1910 Punch) 2 known copies
Willard Brown -1951-52 Denia - Puerto Rican issue - 2 graded copies
Pop Lloyd - 1923-24 Tomas Gutierrez - 6 graded copies

[aljurgela]

Originally Posted by Leon

Those are off the charts. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Leon... some of my prized cards... Al

[orly57]

Historical importance and rarity aside, that Menéndez card is just a great looking baseball card.

[benchod]

Originally Posted by aljurgela

These are some that are not often seen...

Pete Hill rookie (1909 Cabanas) 1 known copy
Jose Mendez rookie (1910 Punch) 2 known copies
Willard Brown -1951-52 Denia - Puerto Rican issue - 2 graded copies
Pop Lloyd - 1923-24 Tomas Gutierrez - 6 graded copies

Amazing!
Definitely envious!
The Mendez is spectacular as is the Pete Hill

[aljurgela]

Originally Posted by benchod

Amazing!
Definitely envious!
The Mendez is spectacular as is the Pete Hill

which I use as my avatar....

[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Lefty O'Doul....11 year career....career BA = .349

So, why isn't he in the HOF ?






TED Z

T206 Reference
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Probably because he only played 6 full(ish) seasons, had 3 really high hitting ones, and played during the highest hitting era ever.

[triwak]

Kyle, here is the link to my HOF set. I've paid a small fortune for the Negro Leaguers (both individual and team cards), and for some of the early pioneers. But was able to obtain most of the others at fairly reasonable prices. As you can see, I'm not very picky with card condition, which saved me money so as to afford the biggies. Hopefully, this might give you some ideas.

Ken Wirt's HOF set:
http://s155.photobucket.com/user/triwak/library/